Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  An artist in the French Quarter in 2010. Tourism provides a much needed source of revenue after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  (Photo: Dana Ward /Shutterstock)   New Orleans rises decade after Katrina but gaps remain   By Rebecca Santana Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — As people search for words to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This undated photograph made available by WDBJ-TV shows reporter Alison Parker, left, and cameraman Adam Ward. Parker and Ward were fatally shot during an on-air interview, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Moneta, Va. Authorities identified the suspect as fellow journalist Vester Lee Flanagan II, who appeared on WDBJ-TV as Bryce Williams. Flanagan was…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Zion Harvey  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Associated Press BALTIMORE — An 8-year-old boy who became the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant has left the Philadelphia hospital where the procedure was done and was returning to his Maryland home. Ashley Moore, spokeswoman for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said in an email that…

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution Julian Bond, a Civil Rights titan and longtime leader of the NAACP, died Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. He was 75. A public face of activism for civil rights throughout his life, Bond led the Southern Poverty Law Center and was the first African American nominated for vice president of the…

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1940 – 2015 FROM HIS FAMILY Pam Horowitz, sons, Horace Mann Bond II, Jeffrey and Michael; daughters, Phyllis Jane Bond McMillan and Julia Louise Bond; sister, Jane; brother, James; and his eight grandchildren. We realize that many people loved and admired Julian. We understand that at this time of great loss for our family, that…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Protesters march in the rain, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Missouri Sunday marks one year since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.  (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) By Jim Salter and Jim Suhr ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. — Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  SCLC President Charles Steele, Jr. says voting advocates will not turn back.  (Ann Ragland/NNPA Photo)   By Jazelle Hunt NNPA WASHINGTON– As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights groups and leaders, union representatives, elected officials, and citizens gathered at the Martin Luther King Jr….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Attorney Cannon Lambert, left, along with Sandra Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, center, and sister Sierra Cole hold a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, in Houston. Bland was found dead in a Texas county jail three days after a confrontation with a white state trooper. The family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  FERGUSON, MO–A crowd gathers at makeshift memorial near where black teenager Michael Brown was shot to death by police in Ferguson, Missouri.  (R. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com) Associated Press Legislators in nearly every state this year proposed measures stemming from the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Double-hand transplant recipient eight-year-old Zion Harvey arrives to a news conference with his mother Pattie Ray Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Philadelphia. Surgeons said Harvey of Baltimore who lost his limbs to a serious infection,  has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant.  (AP…

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